A quintet producing metallic and melodic hardcore sounds from Youngtown, Ohio, Alteras are interested in much more than providing an auditory assault with their pummeling and throaty approach. Instead, they seek to reach out to those dealing with turbulent times, reflecting the reality that the songs on this first album were birthed out of difficult times for the band themselves. Containing a healthy mix of charged intensity as well as tuneful, softer moments, this album unsurprisingly attracted the interest of renowned label Revival Records (operated by members of Alesana).<\/p>\n
It’s a toss up as to which approach the band do better. On one hand, the chugging, raw tension and rapid-fire drumming of \u201cBroke\u201d or the furious pace of \u201cEverything You Ever Wanted\u201d solidify the band as masters of pounding anthems, while other songs, like \u201cCould Ever Love,\u201d with its pianos and singing that hits higher notes, are closer to pop-punk. <\/p>\n
The band have a penchant for atypical beginnings of their tunes, such as \u201cAfter All,\u201d which leads with keys before the rage, and they show their gentler side on the quieter offerings \u201cCould Ever Love\u201d and \u201cBlack Box,\u201d the latter being a memorable acoustic singer-songwriter moment. Though the album places the best tracks toward the beginning, especially with \u201cScars,\u201d where pianos and the most melodic sensibilities are present and punctuated by some growling, this doesn’t carry quite enough weight to deter the \u201cmore of the same\u201d feeling that creeps in later on. <\/p>\n
Alteras certainly don’t sound like neophytes here, as this debut is slick, well-played, and produced with precision. For fans of this genre, it possesses all the characteristics that will make these guys well-known, though the impact here would have been far greater had this been an EP. For anyone with interests along the post-hardcore or metalcore spectrum, or fans of Comeback Kid or The Used, this band should be on your radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9971],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-44856","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-alteras","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44856"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}